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  • Mitos sobre el Control de Armas de Fuego
    John R. Jr. Lott
    Lott acaba con un falso mito sobre la posesión de armas de fuego uno tras otro! Como señala el Prólogo de Andrew Pollack; "Conozca los hechos reales que los desacreditan". Desde los mitos sobre los tiroteos públicos masivos hasta los suicidios, las tasas de posesión de armas y el crimen hasta las zonas libres de armas, Lott aborda las afirmaciones que escuchas con frecuencia en...
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    36,29 €

  • Nobody Left Behind
    Amanda Nicholson
    A collection of poetry, prose and non-fiction inspired by the cost-of-living crisis. Edited by Amanda Nicholson with writing by over 30 poets and authors from around the UK. This anthology was produced to raise awareness of the experiences you rarely see in the mainstream media. All the profits go to Mustard Tree to support the important work they do. Some of the pieces use dar...
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    10,75 €

  • Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine
    Malaka Mohammed Shwaikh / Malaka Shwaikh / Rebecca Ruth Gould
    This publication is the first major transnational examination of prison hunger strikes. While focusing on Palestine, the research is enriched by extensive interviews and conversations with South African, Kurdish, Irish, and British ex-prisoners and hunger strikers. This study reveals in unprecedented detail how prison hunger strikes achieve monumental feats of resistance throug...
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    20,18 €

  • Enslaved
    Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelled with a digital code, they are moved along in the possession of the traffickers through a series of ’black holes’, in which their access to digital technologies and connectivity is highly controlled. They are tortured, abused, extor...
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    78,59 €

  • IDEOLOCITY (2)
    Germinal Boloix
    IDEOLOCITY (2) Las Llaves de la Politica, se concentra en las llaves que permiten tomar mejores decisiones políticas, comenzando por la comprensión de las emociones humanas, el apoyo ético, el apoyo filosófico, y el uso de principios para apoyar a los grandes pensadores que participan en política. Además de discutir sobre la política, los políticos, los sistemas sociopolíticos,...
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    16,61 €

  • Democracy, Human Rights and Governance in The Gambia
    Aboubacar Abdullah Senghore
    This book provides an interesting overview of the African political environment and a specific focus on human rights in the Gambia. The author discusses the democratic system of governance across the African continent; respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; press freedom; respect for the rule of law and authority of the law; good governance and responsible managemen...
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    49,25 €

  • Africa, Human Rights and the Covid-19 Pandemic
    This book makes a significant contribution by initiating debate on the state of human rights, freedoms and civil liberties in the context of emergencies such as pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It is without doubt that as the world was preoccupied with combating the Covid-19 pandemic, issues of rights, freedoms and liberties in the context of this struggle incre...
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    61,03 €

  • Reporting for Duty
    Andrew Mills
    This memoir describes the things the author has done in his life to promote justice and peace in America’s foreign and domestic policies. But it is more than a memoir; it also includes background for, and analysis of, the peace and justice issues involved. The author says: ''I love my country deeply, and so I want it to live up to its promise of brotherhood, truth, and fairness...
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    22,01 €

  • Reporting for Duty
    Andrew Mills
    This memoir describes the things the author has done in his life to promote justice and peace in America’s foreign and domestic policies. But it is more than a memoir; it also includes background for, and analysis of, the peace and justice issues involved. The author says: ''I love my country deeply, and so I want it to live up to its promise of brotherhood, truth, and fairness...
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    29,87 €

  • The Truth About (Counter) Intelligence
    Molly Mapenthorpe
    What is one to make of the world today? Are official interventions of one kind or another helping? Or are there more disasters everywhere you look, on just about every front? THE TRUTH ABOUT (COUNTER) INTELLIGENCE: Equation for Illness or Joyous Garden? takes a look behind the veil at the historically increasing trend of intelligence/counter-intelligence activities mushrooming ...
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    34,17 €

  • The crisis of the field of human rights. Book Two
    Mutabar Tadjibayeva
    КНИГА ПОСВЯЩЁННОЙ ВСЕМИРНОМУ ДНЮ ПРАВ ЧЕЛОВЕКА!Мутабар Таджибаева - Президент МПО Клуб пламенных сердец, Главный обвинитель международной ассоциации 'EXPERTS FOR PEACE' легендарная правозащитница, писатель - документалисть, автор романа -хроники Пленница острова пыток который говорит о жестокости и пытках в Узбекистане. Она автор детективного повесть Мстительная женщина с золот...
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    53,74 €

  • Before Busing
    Zebulon Vance Miletsky
    In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock at the overt racism on display in the 'cradle of liberty.' Yet the city has long been divided over matters of race, and it was also home to a far older Black organizing tradition than...
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    38,02 €

  • Before Busing
    Zebulon Vance Miletsky
    In many histories of Boston, African Americans have remained almost invisible. Partly as a result, when the 1972 crisis over school desegregation and busing erupted, many observers professed shock at the overt racism on display in the 'cradle of liberty.' Yet the city has long been divided over matters of race, and it was also home to a far older Black organizing tradition than...
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    126,88 €

  • A New Kind of Youth
    Jon N. Hale
    The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s. But a remarkably effective tradition of Black high school student activism in the civil rights era has gone understudied. In 1951, students at R. R. Moton High School in rural Virginia led a st...
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    35,15 €

  • A New Kind of Youth
    Jon N. Hale
    The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s. But a remarkably effective tradition of Black high school student activism in the civil rights era has gone understudied. In 1951, students at R. R. Moton High School in rural Virginia led a st...
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    126,62 €

  • Trojan Horse
    Ruben Alvarado
    The idea of Christian America is a disputed one. Those who affirm it marshal a vast body of evidence in support, while those who dispute it have at their command an equally formidable arsenal of facts and documentation. How is the truth of the matter to be settled?Indubitably, the United States was founded in continuity with the Christian, common-law heritage from the mother co...
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    15,49 €

  • The Plot Against Humanity
    Scott Howard
    Best-selling author of The Transgender-Industrial Complex and The Open Society Playbook, Scott Howard explores the still more nefarious connections between our elites, academia, politicians, and media and the various ills plaguing our society. In The Plot Against Humanity, Howard seamlessly exposes the actors behind the renewed and growing interest in transhumanism and the incr...
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    33,20 €

  • Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice
    When a society emerges from authoritarian rule, and the State no longer claims a monopoly on the truth, writing becomes essential - in representing rights, calling for justice, staking claims and counter-claims over what has happened, testifying to abuse, directing collective memory, or simply resisting amnesia. Such writing is a key element of Transitional Justice, whose jurid...
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    138,73 €

  • The Prisons Memory Archive
    The Prisons Memory Archive (PMA) explores ways that narratives of a conflicted past are filmed at the site of the experiences and later negotiated in a contested present in the North of Ireland. Given the state’s failed attempts at establishing an official process for addressing the legacy of the conflict that lasted between 1968 and 1998, there are a number of community and ac...
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    62,68 €

  • Free Joan Little
    Christina Greene
    Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women’s section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. After turning herself in, Little faced a possible death sentence in the state’s gas chamber. At her trial, which was followed arou...
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    126,56 €

  • Free Joan Little
    Christina Greene
    Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women’s section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. After turning herself in, Little faced a possible death sentence in the state’s gas chamber. At her trial, which was followed arou...
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    41,63 €

  • ¡No votes!
    Enrique de Diego Villagran
    Abstención activa se convierte en el primer acto revolucionario, en el grito y el detonante para la insurrección. 'No votes' es un imperativo ético pues votar a cualquiera de las opciones sin ninguna excepción, es convertirnos en cómplices del genocidio y en colaboradores necesarios de nuestra miseria y nuestra esclavitud. ...
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    18,28 €

  • Secret Power
    Stefania Maurizi / Lesli Cavanaugh-Bardelli
    ’I want to live in a society where secret power is accountable to the law and to public opinion for its atrocities, where it is the war criminals who go to jail, not those who have the conscience and courage to expose them.’ It is 2008, and Stefania Maurizi, an investigative journalist with a growing interest in cryptography, starts looking into the little-known organization Wi...
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    126,55 €

  • American Patriarchy
    Laurel A. Rockefeller
    Women’s experiences of patriarchy - from a historical point of view. Focusing on European and United States history, American Patriarchy explores life in the United States for women. Seven essays on the American experience of patriarchy become the discussion topics for the analysis in part two. Topics explored:•           Patriarchy in the work place•           Hostess as the A...
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    11,98 €

  • Up Against the Law
    Luca Falciola
    As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America’s most confrontational activists. In pursuit of radical change themselves, these militant attorneys went beyond providing mere representation. They identified with their clients, defied the habits of a conservative profession, and formulated a corrosive critique of...
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    140,72 €

  • Up Against the Law
    Luca Falciola
    As protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America’s most confrontational activists. In pursuit of radical change themselves, these militant attorneys went beyond providing mere representation. They identified with their clients, defied the habits of a conservative profession, and formulated a corrosive critique of...
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    41,41 €

  • Arms and the Woman
    Maj. Gen. V K Shrivastava
    From prehistoric to modern times, all cultures have unfailingly discriminated against women. Social norms of the male-dominated societies had confined them to household chores and had restrained them from venturing into other fields - the profession of arms being one of them. The glass ceiling was firmly in place.Yet, lost in the pages of history are the daring deeds of warrior...
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    44,28 €

  • Desaparición forzada de menores
    Neus Roig Pruñonosa
    Este libro recoge los artículos de los ponentes que participaron en las dos Jornadas Científicas realizadas en Donostia (2021) y Bilbao (2022) gracias al convenio de colaboración entre el ODFM y AVIDNA. Se ha nutrido también del convenio entre el ODFM y la UB (Banco de ADN), así como del convenio entre el ODFM y la FCPOL y la ELP (Estudio Psicológico).Los autores y autoras de l...
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    14,00 €

  • James Baldwin Review
    James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year’s volume. ...
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    35,70 €

  • The Investigative Brigade
    Pascale Bonnefoy Miralles / Russ Davidson
    During the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship, more than three thousand Chileans were murdered or disappeared without a trace. In 1991, a year after the brutal military regime ended, the new civilian government tasked the nation’s detective force to investigate these crimes. Chilean journalist Pascale Bonnefoy tells the dramatic story of the detectives who hunted down and att...
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    126,67 €